Azure AD user creation

Question

how to create a Azure AD user account programatically using .net core from a web application register ?
is it possible to create and assign privilages to that new users?

Answer 1

Hi @Prince Varghese • Thank you for reaching out.

I understood that you want to create Azure AD users using .net core via web application registered in Azure AD. For this purpose:

• First you need to acquire an access token so that you can use Graph API to perform the below actions on your behalf by passing the Access Token as a bearer for the calls. You can refer to this sample: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-docs/blob/main/concepts/auth-v2-user.md
• To create a user account, use below code:

  GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );  
  
  var user = new User  
  {  
      AccountEnabled = true,  
      DisplayName = "Adele Vance",  
      MailNickname = "AdeleV",  
      UserPrincipalName = "******@contoso.onmicrosoft.com",  
      PasswordProfile = new PasswordProfile  
      {  
          ForceChangePasswordNextSignIn = true,  
          Password = "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"  
      }  
  };  
  
  await graphClient.Users  
      .Request()  
      .AddAsync(user);  
  

• To assign directory role to the user, use below code:

  GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );  
  
      var directoryObject = new DirectoryObject  
      {  
          Id = "15c1a2d5-9101-44b2-83ab-885db8a647ca"  
      };  
  
      await graphClient.DirectoryRoles["{directoryRole-id}"].Members.References  
          .Request()  
          .AddAsync(directoryObject);  
  

  To get ID of the directory roles, you can use GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directoryRoles call.

Read more:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-users?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=csharp
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/directoryrole-post-members?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=csharp

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